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CLOTH ES-HANGING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 534,687, dated February26, 1 895.

Application filed October 30, 1893- Serial No. 489,539. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERBERT E. GRAHAM, of-the city of Stillwater, countyof Washington, State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Clothes- Hanging Devices, of which the following is. aspecification.

My invention relates to means for facilitating the hanging of clothes onthe line; and the particular object of my invention is to provide meanswhereby the clothes may be prepared in the house for the outdoor lineand then being carried out hung thereon in an exceedingly short time,thereby avoiding the long exposure of the person doing the work to thecold of winter or heat of summer.

The invention consists in details of construction and in combinationsall as hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the claims.

The invention and its use and operation will be more readily understoodby reference to the accompanying drawings, forming part of thisspecification, and in which- Figure 1 shows a complete device embodyingmy invention. Fig. 2 is a view showing the portable part of the devicein use within the house. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the same. Fig. 4 is anenlarged detail view of the elevating ratchet device employed inconnection with the outdoor part of my device. Fig. 5 Fig. 6 is a planView sectioned on the line w-ac of Fig. 4. Fig. 7 is an enlarged view ofone of the wall brackets used within the house. Figs. 8 and 9 are frontand side views of one of the rings or loops which I employ. Figs. 10 and11 are side and plan views of what may be termed the needle used on theend of the clothes line or rope. Figs. 12 and 13 are side and plan viewsof the hooked strip which forms one end of the permanent out-door line.

As shown in the drawings, 2 and 8 repre-.

sent opposite posts. A strong Wire 4 is stretched between these posts,one end being attached to one of the posts While at the other end thewire is completed by the strip 5 and the pivoted arm 6 to which it ishooked. The arm is pivoted upon a plate 7 secured upon the side of thepost. To this plate is also attached the ratchet 8 which passes througha slot 9 in the arm 6. The arm 6 is provided with the gravity pawl 10pivoted within the same and adapted to engage the teeth of the ratchetand to be disengaged therefrom by slight pressure upon the short arm orhandle 11 depending from the under side of the pawl.

The arrangement of this arm 11, as shown, adapts the pawl and the arm 6for operation with one hand, when it is desired to lower or raise thearm 6 to slacken or tighten the supporting wire 4. .This wire is adaptedto sup port the clothes line with all of the clothes stretched thereon.These parts are simply incident to the present invention shown in orderthat the rest may be clearly understood, and which'are themselvesclearly and specifically set forth in the specification and claims of adivisional application related to this application and filed by me inthe United States Patent Office the 19th day of January, 1894,

said application being entitled clothes hanging apparatus and bearingSerial No. 497,360.

The clothes are first secured upon the clothes line 12 by the usualclothes pins, and at intervals say of six feet, or the distance betweenthe notches 20 and 21 of the brackets 17 and 18 along the line are smallrings or loops 13 which run along upon the wire 4.

The rings are of the peculiar form shown in Figs. 8 and 9, where it willbe seen that each ring is provided with a crimped loop portion 14, theslot within which is irregular and narrower than the rope which is drawninto the same. The ring is thus bound firmly upon the clothes line orrope, and after allot the line is drawn taut by pulling down andfastening the handle or needle 15 attached to the outer end thereof,while the last ring 13 is caught into the notch 16 of the strap 5 and soanchors the other, end of the clothes line.

WVithin the house or other place and preferably between angular walls orparts as shown in Fig. 3, I provide the two brackets 17 and 18 both ofthe same construction and preferably arranged to swing back against thewalls so as to be out of the way, or they may be taken out of theirsockets altogether when not in use. Each bracket is provided at itsouter end with an upwardly extending part 19 and a notch 20 is made inthe obtuse angle of the bracket, and another one 21 at the extreme endof the inclined part. These notches are to retain the first and lastrings of the clothes line as the same is folded upon the bracket asindicated in Fig. 2. All of the rings being placed upon one bracket, theend of the rope and the first ring are then carried across and slippedinto the notch 21 in the end of the opposite bracket. The second ring inthe mean time slides up the inclined part and catches, and is held inthe outer notch 21 of the first bracket and the rope is thus held quitetaut between the two. The clothes are then attached by the clothes pinsshown, in the usual manner, and after the first length of line or ropehas been filled with clothes this length is let down by removing thesecond ring from the bracket and carrying the same over to the secondbracket, this ring taking the place of the first in the notch thereof.Then the second length of line is pulled taut and is in readiness toreceive its load of clothes. In this way all of the sections or spaceson the line may be filled until finally all of the rings have beentransferred to the second bracket. The needle or handle 15 which is onthe end of the rope is then passed down through all of the rings on theinclined part of the second bracket and the hook in the end of thehandle 15 is caught into the last ring and by means of the same, therings, line, and cloth es may be lifted off of the bracket and carriedout of. doors, where the hook strap 5 is unloosened from the arm 6 andpassed through the rings at the side or top of the needle 15. The strapis then hooked back into the arm and the line pulled out to its fulllength, as shown in Fig. 1, the rings slipping readily on the supportingwire. At the time when the rings are being transferred to the strap 5and to prevent the rings naturally running down upon the sagging wire4,1 provide the second notch 25 in the strap and which serves to holdthe end ring of the group of rings thereon until the strap has beensecured in the end of the arm 6.

Preferably before the clothes have been drawn out. along the wire, thearm 6 is moved up to take up all slack in the wire 4, and at the sametime raise the line, thus avoiding the use of a troublesome clothespole.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent 1. The combination, of two brackets, each providedwith an upwardly inclined and notched part, with the clothes lineprovided at intervals with fixed rings adapted to swing from and betemporarily secured upon said brackets, said line being provided at oneend with a needle or handle rod adapted to be inserted through all ofthe rings, as and for the purpose specified.

2. The combination, with suitable supports placed opposite one another,of brackets pivotally arranged thereon and each provided with anupwardly turned end 19, and the notches 20 and 21, the clothes lineprovided with loops or rings arranged at various points thereon, andhaving a crimped lower portion, the distance between said rings beingsubstantially equal to that between the notches 21 of said brackets,substantially as described and for the purpose specified.

3. The combination, with the two brackets, of the sockets wherein saidbrackets are pivoted and removable, each of said brackets provided withan upwardly turned notched end, the line or cord provided at severalpoints with suspending loops, the distance between the loops beingsubstantially equal to that between the ends of said brackets, one ofthe loops being at one end of said cord and a needle or handle rod atthe other end, said handle rod being provided with a notched or hookedend whereby all of the loops may be held thereon, substantially as andfor the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 16th day ofOctober, 1893.

HERBERT E. GRAHAM.

In presence of A. T. LINDHOLER, W. A. CovELL.

